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• ‘Ūd Taqsīm as a Model of Pre-Composition Research project

  In this research project Nizar Rohana analyzes and reflects on taqsīm recordings by two leading figures of ‘ūd playing who were pillars of modern Arabic music, namely the Egyptians Muḥammad al-Qaṣabjī (1898-1964) and Riyāḍ al-Sunbāṭī (1906-1981).

• De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving Research output

  De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving (The Lightness of Literature: Engagement in the Multicultural Society) is a plea for the social relevance of literature. The book delves into an age-old debate about literature and social engagement, which has recently been reinvigorated…

• Cultural activities Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  To reach a larger audience beyond the academy, a number of activities in the cultural realm have been programmed over the years.

• Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.

• About the programme Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)

  The two-year research master in Middle Eastern Studies equips you with advanced and in-depth knowledge of a region and discipline within the field of Middle Eastern Studies.

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  Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tommie van Wanrooij Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Writing Novels under the New Order Research output

  On the 31 March 2022 Mr. Taufiq Hanafi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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  Ludovicus Jongen

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw Professor emeritus Literary studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eep Francken

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joe Fortin External PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Claudia Bouteligier Traject Coordinator Honours College Law

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

• Arabic poetry: The power of nostalgia Event - 30 November 2019

  Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019

• Multilingual Dynamics of Medieval Literature News - 8 February 2022

  As part of the NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’, we invite proposals for 20 minute papers addressing any aspect of medieval literature and literary culture. We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages—and…

• Feelings Matter: Emotions in Medieval Arabic Event - 15 February 2018

  Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2018)

• A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) Research output

  Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016

• Programme: Cinema-Going in The Arab World: Exhibition, Distribution, and Audiences News - 6 September 2018

  A workshop (Cairo, Egypt, 14-15 September 2018) organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo with support from “DICIS” / Digital Cinema Studies https://www.digitalcinemastudies.com/

• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Wadad Kadi News - 3 July 2018

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Wadad Kadi, of the University of Chicago, to Leiden. She is the first Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

• Al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture opens its doors News - 11 October 2018

  With the official launch of the Al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture, Leiden University and the AbdulAziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation have opened the door for new opportunities of cultural and academic exchange. Have a look at last week's festivities.

• Visiting fellows Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  Every semester, LUCIS invites a scholar to Leiden to provide a lecture series on a topic of their choice. With these lectures, we aim to present state-of-the-art research in Islamic studies to the Leiden academic community and beyond, and to offer students and junior researchers the opportunity to get…

• Arabic / Poetry / in Arabic: The sea البحر Event - 12 October 2022

  Literary salon

• Five years after the Arab Spring: Is Tunisia the only success? News - 9 December 2015

  Five years after the Arab Spring it seems as if the only sign of success is in Tunisia. But is that really the case? The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) is organising a panel discussion on this topic on Friday 12 February.

• Rewriting Yusuf. A Philological and Intertextual Study of a Swahili Islamic Manuscript Poem Research output

  The present monograph, spanning a wide range of world and local literatures represents a high academic standard of both literary criticism and philological analysis. By demonstrating her expertise as an Africanist conversant with the Arabic canon, Raia reveals how the narrative of Joseph has been re-narrated…

• The writing on the rocks: Thamidic and Arabia's linguistic past Research project

  This project aims to open up the pre-Islamic linguistic history of Arabia through the systematic study of the Thamudic inscriptions within a digital humanities framework.

• Volume VII 2013 Perspectives on Terrorism

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  Peter Liebregts Professor of Modern Literatures in English

  Faculty of Humanities

• in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature News - 30 March 2022

  How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.

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  Aafke van Ewijk Postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Collections Towards the Middle Eastern Library

  The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.

• Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections News - 18 December 2019

  Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maurits Berger Professor of Islam and the West

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Arnold Mol PhD candidate / lecturer Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

• Exclusion and Renewal. Identity and Jewishness in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and David Vogels's 'Married Life' Research output

  In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”, 1912) and David Vogel’s Hebrew novel Married Life. 1929).

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  Ahab Bdaiwi University Lecturer Arabic and Medieval Philosophy and Late Antique Intellectual History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Fokelien Kootstra Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Wybren Scheepsma Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jonathan Price Guest Staff Member

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nike van Helden PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paula Jordão Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marcos Neto de Cordova External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Evert Jan van Leeuwen University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Annelies Schulte Nordholt University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Arabic numismatics - an introductory seminar Event - 29 October 2019

  Course

• The style of speeches Research project

  What is the difference between a minister saying that something is possible or that it is not impossible ?

• De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen Research output

  The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.